no flash on iPhone is for the best. witness the renewed interest in html5 video.
Recently bought a Quad core i7 2.2ghz macbook pro 15". It runs Windows. it runs OS X. It runs Linux or FreeBSD if i want. The hardware is not made of cheese, and I like OS X.
GNU utilities are mostly shit anyway, as soon as Apple gets rid of most of the GNU crap from OS X and goes to full BSD user land the better. CLANG is a very good start.
The difference is, americans are far more likely to sue, and win in court on trivial BS matters. Cost of employment pales in comparison to cost/risk of lawsuit...
The rich are investing in gold at the moment because of the massive devaluation of the US dollar by this rampant spending going on. And because the US is such a hostile environment to try and operate a business. They invest in productivity improvements simply because employing americans is too expensive for what you get especially when combined with the business hostile legislation.
So rather than employ people (who present litigation risk), they employ robots and chinese. Raising taxes won't help that, it will just result in operations moving further offshore. And the execs don't have to live in places like China either. There are plenty of nice places to live with favourable tax legislation if this crap gets passed.
Anyone who wants to make money will leave as soon as they get big enough. Where the execs live has absolutely ZERO to do with where they have their factories and labour force.
GDP figures are bunk. When your economy produces nothing and measures "spending" funded by debt as growth (which is what your GDP has largely become) its not a measure of growth. or else you'd be doing fine, when you're CLEARLY not.
Not really, because nothing is then being made in your country and no one is employed. If anyone does bother to try and make stuff and employ people, they run into the same problems and leave for more attractive labour markets ASAP.
To be fair, the US's current problems don't stem from Bush or Obama, they go back far further than that. Ever since the end of world war two, the US has been spending vast amounts of money on military R&D, the space race, korea, vietnam, star wars, etc.
This has been a long time coming, and Nixon getting rid of the gold standard was the first sign that things were going south. Since then, you've been on an exponential debt accumulation, and Bush/Obama have been the ones to be stuck holding the tab near the end of it.
How much further than the debt growth continue? Well, china is looking to cash out of their US dollars in a massive way - by buying several thousand tonnes of gold. However they need to be careful not to exit the USD all at once or they'll really crash the market and end up getting less for their dollars.
This whole "global financial crisis" (or rather "US market = fucked, and most people are sheep" crisis) didn't just happen overnight or even in the past few terms. The downward spiral started a LONG time ago.
Give rich people in your country incentives to actually grow their business via local employment instead of offshoring to more attractive labour markets.
Companies with money to spend don't expand their number of jobs if it is far cheaper and less liable to be sued when you spend the money to develop a robot, or pay shipping from the other side of the world from production based in china where the labor rate is less artificially inflated.
If your job market is so fucked that it is cheaper to pay people on the other side of the world to turn your raw materials into products and then ship them back to you, rather than produce locally then something is SERIOUSLY wrong.
That doesn't just go for the US - most of the western world is in a similar position, and this is why they're all fucked. The east asian nations, russia, germany and other economies that have been actually producing goods and putting money into production rather than providing artificially cheap money to fund speculative bubbles are laughing all the way to the bank.
Actually, its a larger incentive to not even bother playing the game and relocate to china, russia, or anywhere else that provides less disincentives to operate.
OK... much as people hate the tall poppies, guess what happens when you give them massive disincentives to operate in your jurisdiction? They leave and go make their money elsewhere. They take their jobs with them.
This is not the solution - much as the average joe doesn't like it, rich people operating their business in your country provide jobs.
Tax less, stop removing the disincentives to employ people over there, and the economy will actually start producing things and making money. Rather than relying on borrowed money from China to provide bunk GDP "growth" that measures debt-funded spending on goods imported from overseas.
However, it is no doubt popular with the voters.
Good luck america, with leadership like this, you'll need it.
How about the fact that they basically have the majority of your game library hostage - either pay up, or you lose access to your previously purchased media? Surely that is a "superior bargaining position" (sony holds all the cards, don't agree you lose your shit) - and the "surprise" has come long after purchase.
Unless sony is offering refunds for all the licenses we lose access to when refusing to agree to the new T&C?
Not that i particularly care, the PS3 hasn't been on the PSN in about 6 months. That doesn't mean this shit isn't morally reprehensible though.
Well, the stats are currently skewed. Out of the current tablets, most of them suck apart from the iPad. The iPad needs to sync to a PC/Mac. When IOS5 is released, that need goes away.
However, core point being: non-pc devices are becoming more popular. Most of them don't run flash. Websites that want to capture an audience will need to work with these devices - or die.
It will happen faster than you think. the average joe doesn't want a computer for most of his stuff. he wants an appliance like a tablet that doesn't do a lot but will let him read news, do his banking and watch porn. Thus the success of the tablet market recently. And thus, web sites will need to keep up to support that growing market. Tablets failed previously because they were basically computers with no mouse/keyboard (even mostly ran windows). The iPad and its knock offs are popular because they AREN'T full general purpose machines.
and this is the key point. Adobe don't make money out of flash. They make money out of tools that generate flash. They simply retarget these at HTML5, or whatever other flavour of the month, and force every web "developer" to upgrade because flash is no longer supported. Job done, money in the bank.
OK put it this way. How many times have you had to un-fuck a user's computer due to the abundance of shitware plugins embedded in their browser that do little more than steal data and redirect their search queries?
HTML5+CSS+Javascript can do just about anything you need a browser to do. If you need to do more than that, write a fucking proper application, this retarded shit with making plugins to run in an untrusted security context that can essentially do just about anything with your computer, particularly when they're exploited has to end.
In fact, killing flash would be a win for adobe. They can then force-upgrade all those flash using developers out there to the latest version of the adobe suite that generates HTML5 output.
And besides, the ground vp8 is standing on is fairly shaky, legally. It hasn't been to court yet, but google are refusing to indemnify anyone against patent litigation because they aren't confident in the codebase being patent free.
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no flash on iPhone is for the best. witness the renewed interest in html5 video.
Recently bought a Quad core i7 2.2ghz macbook pro 15". It runs Windows. it runs OS X. It runs Linux or FreeBSD if i want. The hardware is not made of cheese, and I like OS X.
GNU utilities are mostly shit anyway, as soon as Apple gets rid of most of the GNU crap from OS X and goes to full BSD user land the better. CLANG is a very good start.
The difference is, americans are far more likely to sue, and win in court on trivial BS matters. Cost of employment pales in comparison to cost/risk of lawsuit...
The rich are investing in gold at the moment because of the massive devaluation of the US dollar by this rampant spending going on. And because the US is such a hostile environment to try and operate a business. They invest in productivity improvements simply because employing americans is too expensive for what you get especially when combined with the business hostile legislation.
So rather than employ people (who present litigation risk), they employ robots and chinese. Raising taxes won't help that, it will just result in operations moving further offshore. And the execs don't have to live in places like China either. There are plenty of nice places to live with favourable tax legislation if this crap gets passed.
Anyone who wants to make money will leave as soon as they get big enough. Where the execs live has absolutely ZERO to do with where they have their factories and labour force.
GDP figures are bunk. When your economy produces nothing and measures "spending" funded by debt as growth (which is what your GDP has largely become) its not a measure of growth. or else you'd be doing fine, when you're CLEARLY not.
Not really, because nothing is then being made in your country and no one is employed. If anyone does bother to try and make stuff and employ people, they run into the same problems and leave for more attractive labour markets ASAP.
It will catch all the sheeple who think "woot, yeah down with the man!" and vote for whoever had the hair brained scheme in the first place.
To be fair, the US's current problems don't stem from Bush or Obama, they go back far further than that. Ever since the end of world war two, the US has been spending vast amounts of money on military R&D, the space race, korea, vietnam, star wars, etc.
This has been a long time coming, and Nixon getting rid of the gold standard was the first sign that things were going south. Since then, you've been on an exponential debt accumulation, and Bush/Obama have been the ones to be stuck holding the tab near the end of it.
How much further than the debt growth continue? Well, china is looking to cash out of their US dollars in a massive way - by buying several thousand tonnes of gold. However they need to be careful not to exit the USD all at once or they'll really crash the market and end up getting less for their dollars.
This whole "global financial crisis" (or rather "US market = fucked, and most people are sheep" crisis) didn't just happen overnight or even in the past few terms. The downward spiral started a LONG time ago.
Give rich people in your country incentives to actually grow their business via local employment instead of offshoring to more attractive labour markets.
Companies with money to spend don't expand their number of jobs if it is far cheaper and less liable to be sued when you spend the money to develop a robot, or pay shipping from the other side of the world from production based in china where the labor rate is less artificially inflated.
If your job market is so fucked that it is cheaper to pay people on the other side of the world to turn your raw materials into products and then ship them back to you, rather than produce locally then something is SERIOUSLY wrong.
That doesn't just go for the US - most of the western world is in a similar position, and this is why they're all fucked. The east asian nations, russia, germany and other economies that have been actually producing goods and putting money into production rather than providing artificially cheap money to fund speculative bubbles are laughing all the way to the bank.
Drop the unprovoked wars against third world countries all over the place, and you'll save well over half a trillion this financial year alone.
Actually, its a larger incentive to not even bother playing the game and relocate to china, russia, or anywhere else that provides less disincentives to operate.
OK... much as people hate the tall poppies, guess what happens when you give them massive disincentives to operate in your jurisdiction? They leave and go make their money elsewhere. They take their jobs with them.
This is not the solution - much as the average joe doesn't like it, rich people operating their business in your country provide jobs.
Tax less, stop removing the disincentives to employ people over there, and the economy will actually start producing things and making money. Rather than relying on borrowed money from China to provide bunk GDP "growth" that measures debt-funded spending on goods imported from overseas.
However, it is no doubt popular with the voters.
Good luck america, with leadership like this, you'll need it.
GT5 Prologue for example will not run without PSN access.
How about the fact that they basically have the majority of your game library hostage - either pay up, or you lose access to your previously purchased media? Surely that is a "superior bargaining position" (sony holds all the cards, don't agree you lose your shit) - and the "surprise" has come long after purchase.
Unless sony is offering refunds for all the licenses we lose access to when refusing to agree to the new T&C?
Not that i particularly care, the PS3 hasn't been on the PSN in about 6 months. That doesn't mean this shit isn't morally reprehensible though.
Gets interesting when sony keep changing the T&C after purchase, doesn't it?
If you want to run a Java app, you can run it outside of the browser.
Well, the stats are currently skewed. Out of the current tablets, most of them suck apart from the iPad. The iPad needs to sync to a PC/Mac. When IOS5 is released, that need goes away.
However, core point being: non-pc devices are becoming more popular. Most of them don't run flash. Websites that want to capture an audience will need to work with these devices - or die.
It will happen faster than you think. the average joe doesn't want a computer for most of his stuff. he wants an appliance like a tablet that doesn't do a lot but will let him read news, do his banking and watch porn. Thus the success of the tablet market recently. And thus, web sites will need to keep up to support that growing market. Tablets failed previously because they were basically computers with no mouse/keyboard (even mostly ran windows). The iPad and its knock offs are popular because they AREN'T full general purpose machines.
and this is the key point. Adobe don't make money out of flash. They make money out of tools that generate flash. They simply retarget these at HTML5, or whatever other flavour of the month, and force every web "developer" to upgrade because flash is no longer supported. Job done, money in the bank.
Corp types who want to lock shit down and have hardware accelerated rendering run IE9.
Nah, you just have to put up with half-assed freeware rip-offs of it, that look somewhat similar but don't actually work.
OK put it this way. How many times have you had to un-fuck a user's computer due to the abundance of shitware plugins embedded in their browser that do little more than steal data and redirect their search queries?
HTML5+CSS+Javascript can do just about anything you need a browser to do. If you need to do more than that, write a fucking proper application, this retarded shit with making plugins to run in an untrusted security context that can essentially do just about anything with your computer, particularly when they're exploited has to end.
In fact, killing flash would be a win for adobe. They can then force-upgrade all those flash using developers out there to the latest version of the adobe suite that generates HTML5 output.
Which has what to do with anything?
And besides, the ground vp8 is standing on is fairly shaky, legally. It hasn't been to court yet, but google are refusing to indemnify anyone against patent litigation because they aren't confident in the codebase being patent free.